[Openfoam Tutorial 2] Lid-Driven Cavity Flow

Let's Talk about Openfoam!

The Purpose will be to show you how to operate the OpenFoam solver with the minimum of hassle and I'll try to teach you some knowledge about CFD Simulation along the way, brushing off my own dusty CFD skills ;-)

What we will learn in this video:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:03 Lid-Driven Cavity Explanation
00:09:03 Pre-processing
00:14:43
00:22:38 Boundary conditions and initial conditions
00:29:39 Physical Properties
00:32:04 Controlling the simulation time
00:40:25 Viewing the Mesh
00:42:33 Running an application
00:45:03 Post-processing
01:00:17 Increasing the mesh resolution
01:12:26 Plotting Graphs and Curves
01:19:37 Introducing mesh grading
01:29:02 Increasing the Reynolds number
01:40:05 High Reynolds number flow
01:51:20 Changing the case geometry

What is Openfoam?

Openfoam is currently the leading free and open-source solver for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
It belongs to the Openfoam foundation and it is distributed under a GPL License. This GPL License gives you the freedom to redistribute the software and it garanties that the usage will remain free.

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[apoorvaparvathgari]

I wasted so much time asking help for others in my project-assistanship, where as you explained everything in one video. thank you so much 🙏

[rithikdhandapani]

Still helping people get started with OpenFOAM. Thank you.

[seyk]

I was almost giving up on OpenFoam but this video saved me! Thank u

[tahoon]

What a video, i liked how you take every opportunity to show different featured of openFoam using this simple case study, really helpful tutorial. wish you all the best and happy new year

[libstrill]

GREAT WORK SIR! PEOPLE USING OPENFOAM 12 or newer versions will struggle a bit especially with the post-processing because pisoFOAM is no longer executable. It has been replaced by the general solver module foamRun -solver incompressible fluid. note the icoFoam is in the directory for newer versions of icoFoam.

[abrahamhu]

I'm very appreciate for your video. I'm trying to run the shockFluid tutorial, but in wedge15M5 constant folder, the physicalProperties file, it seems like no dimensions for molweight or cp or other properties. How can i know what's the unit for the property or which fluid is it?

[tejasraysad]

These videos are so helpful!, Idk what i woud have done with openFOAM without videos like these, tysm ;)

[asifraj]

Great tutorial Sir, I really appreciate your effort. you provide almost compete overview of Open-foam. Hope you make video on geometry creation in details. Thank you

[andresporras]

I just started to CDF and your videos have been of great help to me. Thank you so much

[HamidReza]

Thanks for your nice video.
I just want to mention that incompressible flow is not restricted to liquids, gasses can also have incompressible flow, when they flow isothermally (Adiabatic condition) at low velocity.

[manuel_youtube_ttt]

Beautiful! So many knowledge packed with time marks in a single video!

[pradeepn]

Thanks so much for covering this in detail with a great explanation

[РассадинАлександр-кк]

Great video explanation! I've watched several of your videos and each of them was useful for me. Thank you a lot!

[umarfarooq]

I am new here and great to see much more materials. Great teacher

[riyaagrawal]

nicely explained Sir....you efforts are inspirational

[shrutiOP]

Very helpful video, thank you so much! good pace and well explained!

[karthika]

Thanks a lot, Cyprien. It was a breeze learning OpenFoam with you. Looking forward to more of your videos...

[pedroalvesfission]

Thank you for making this tutorial Cyprien. This is great stuff, and having someone to follow is great introduction. Thank you.

[marjonaabdullozoda]

Thank you for making this tutorial Cyprien. This is great stuff, and having someone to follow is great introduction.

[annafergi]

A massive thanks for your work. Everything is just clinical.